| 单词 | hundreds and thousands |
| 释义 | > as lemmashundreds and thousands 7. hundreds and thousands: a name for very small comfits. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > small sweets hundreds and thousands1894 Jimmy1949 dolly mixture1957 c1830 [Remembered in use]. 1894 ‘G. Egerton’ Keynotes 137 Little cakes with hundreds and thousands on top. 1922 G. K. Chesterton in Illustr. London News 12 Aug. 234/1 There ought not to be anything but a plural for..the sweets called hundreds and thousands. 1932 A. Christie Thirteen Probl. i. 22 ‘Cooks nearly always put hundreds and thousands on trifle, dear,’ she said. ‘Those little pink and white sugar things.’ a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 60 Brandyballs, winegums, hundreds and thousands, liquorice sweet as sick. 1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 87 Little sugary pellets like hundreds and thousands. < as lemmas |
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